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The one thing that can cleanly draw a wedge between equity aficionados in India is the debate between active and passive investing. Although on this blog, earlier we have gone on record...

The book explains that the incumbent firms are at disadvantage vs start-ups on disruptive technologies. The author lays a framework for the incumbents to overcome this hurdle. There are...

The tenure of Arvind Subramanian as Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) to the Government of India, was a pretty eventful one, right from the call which he received to apply while holidaying in...

“Investing consists of exactly one thing: dealing with the future. And because none of us can know the future with certainty, the risk is inescapable.” For those of a literary disposition, this...

The book “Outliers” explores the underlying factors of success stories to find commonalities, across fields. The author Malcolm Gladwell goes beyond the obvious ones such as ability, hard work, and intelligence, where...

Philip A. Fisher who was a very successful investor had written this book in 1958 but its teachings are as relevant today as they were about six decades back. It is my...

This was my first book on the Topic – Investment in Financial Markets. The prime reason behind reading this book was a comment by the great Investor Warren Buffet, which was “This...

The term SIP or Systematic Investment Plan is no stranger to all of us - mutual funds offer this facility to investors wherein they can invest their savings in a disciplined way...

With money matters, we sometimes get lost or wonder if we are on the right track. At times like these, it would be nice if we could have some guiding principles that...

In the era of fascination for growth investing particularly in India, what attracted me to this book “The Little Book of Value Investing” by Christopher H. Browne was the curiosity to understand...